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THE NAONAIYAOTIT TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE PROJECT (NTKP) An Evolving Traditional Knowledge Database via Dynamic Partnerships with Industry Presented to the 2012 Nunavut Mining Symposium Slide 2 NTKP Land and Environment planning tool Inuit designed, conducted & implemented GIS Regional database of knowledge of Kitikmeot Inuit Slave Geological Province Slide 3 Study Area Slide 4 Slide 5 NTKP THEMES Heritage, Culture & Land Use Habitat (Cliffs, Eskers, Wetlands) Water Quality (Important lakes and rivers) Fish Seals & Marine Mammals Birds Hares, Ground Squirrels & Small Mammals Grizzly Bears Moose Caribou Muskox Red & Arctic Foxes Wolves Wolverine Slide 6 Authors Slide 7 Slide 8 Slide 9 NTKP THEMES Heritage, Culture & Land Use Habitat (Cliffs, Eskers, Wetlands) Water Quality (Important lakes and rivers) Fish Seals & Marine Mammals Birds Hares, Ground Squirrels & Small Mammals Grizzly Bears Moose Caribou Muskox Red & Arctic Foxes Wolves Wolverine Slide 10 Walking in the Path of the Caribou Knowledge of the Copper Inuit Placenames Atlas Naonaiyaotit Traditional Knowledge Project Vivian Banci, Chris C. Hanks and Rosemary M. Spicker, Editors Gerry Atatahak, Data Collection Coordinator and Translator Kitikmeot Inuit Association Cambridge Bay and Kugluktuk, Nunavut Slide 11 Slide 12 Present & Future for NTKP Integrating other Traditional Knowledge into the NTKP Tuktu Nogait Project Inuit Land Use and Occupancy Project Partnerships for Development Review and Monitoring Publication of the NTKP for the Inuit and Public use Slide 13 Tuktu Nogait Project (TNP) Integrated into NTKP 2011 Slide 14 Slide 15 Industry Partnerships TK Integration into EIS Hope Bay Project Back River Project Others: TBA Publication of the NTKP Ekati Diamond Mine Slide 16 Summary The NTKP is the major source of Inuit Traditional Knowledge in the Slave Geological Province. The NTKP provides baseline data that augments science, and in some cases, is the only information available. Partnerships with industry and government will add value to resource development and to promoting Inuit culture. KIA will continue building the NTKP, focused on the entire Kitikmeot Region. Slide 17 Koanakohi